Carnegie Mellon create robotic snakes that get around

Watch out Samuel L. Jackson. If you were worried about snakes on a plane before, just get a load of these robotic counterparts. They were created by inventors over at The Robotics Institute which is part of Carnegie Mellon University.

As the video shows, this modular snake robot can get around in a myriad of ways like slinking around poles, climbing through pipes, and even rolling over itself to get where it needs to go. In this particular application being shown, the snake robot is demonstrating how it can be used to inspect weld joints on pipes.

If that wasn’t creepy enough for you, the people at the Robotics Institute have been able to teach their snake robots additional tricks, like how to climb up poles, slink up the sides of buildings and even swim across lakes.

Great. This is just another example that when the robot apocalypse finally descends on us all, mankind will hardly have any place to hide that these snakes can’t find us.